Ecological Imperialism in Canada's North

By Liza Piper and John Sandlos
http://www.historycooperative.org.remote.libproxy.wlu.ca/journals/eh/12.4/piper.html

Canada is experiencing ecological imperialism in the North, which suggests colonial environmental change is occurring, culturally and economically. Environmental change of disease, plants and animals, has created a New World environment of ecological imperialism. Canada is experiencing much of the same imperialism issues as that in the United States of America. The traditional culture of the Aboriginal groups both in Canada and the United States of America are the ones experiencing the most impact of environmental change. The ecological imperialism implications for claiming land demonstrates a treadmill of production based on the need of natural resources such as minerals, timber, fish and water (55). In Canada, ecological imperialism has demonstrated to be successful by using nature as a commodity.